Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 6:22
Did I say — Give me something for my support or relief. You might have at least given me comfortable words, when I expected nothing else from you.
Did I say — Give me something for my support or relief. You might have at least given me comfortable words, when I expected nothing else from you.
Verse Job 6:22. _DID I SAY, BRING UNTO ME?_] Why do you stand aloof? Have I asked you to bring me any presents? or to supply my wants out of your stores?...
DID I SAY, BRING UNTO ME? - Job proceeds to state that their conduct in this had been greatly aggravated by the fact that they had come voluntarily. He had not asked them to come. He had desired no gi...
CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...
JOB'S SORROWFUL DISAPPOINTMENT IN HIS FRIENDS. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, have...
DID. SAY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Continued in Job 6:23. SUBSTANCE. Hebrew strength; put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for what is produced by it....
He had not asked anything very great from his friends, which would have been too severe a strain on their friendship, only sympathy, and straightforward dealing, and that they should consider him the...
Job's sorrowful disappointment at the position taken up towards him by his three friends Job had freely expressed his misery in ch. 3, believing that the sympathies of his friends were entirely with...
_a reward_ Rather, A GIFT....
3. Bitter disappointment from his friends, who are unreasonably hard (Job 6:14-23) TEXT 6:14-23 14 TO HIM THAT IS READY TO FAINT KINDNESS _should be showed_ FROM HIS FRIEND; Even to him that forsak...
_DID I SAY, BRING UNTO ME? OR, GIVE A REWARD FOR ME OF YOUR SUBSTANCE?_ Bring unto me. And yet I did not ask you to bring me a gift, or to pay for me out of your substance a reward (to the Judge, to...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF JOB (JOB 6:7) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of Go...
Job knew that his friends could not help him. His troubles were too great. His friends’ money could not help him. And they could not defend him. They were too late. Job’s trouble had already happened...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
DID I SAY, BRING UNTO ME? — “It is not as though I had abused your former kindness. I never laid myself under obligations to you; I never asked for your help before. Had I done so, I might have wearie...
הֲֽ כִי ־אָ֭מַרְתִּי הָ֣בוּ לִ֑י וּ֝ מִ
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
“A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...
Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your (n) substance? (n) He touches the worldlings who for need will give part of their goods, and much more these men, who would not give him com...
(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
DID I SAY, BRING UNTO ME?.... Or, "give unto me" b; did I invite you to come to me, and bring in your hands presents for me, to support me under my necessitous circumstances? OR GIVE A REWARD FOR ME...
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? Ver. 22. _Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give, &c._] Did I ever charge you for my reparation or redemption? This interrogation is...
_Did I say_ Or, is it _because I said; Bring unto me?_ Give me something for my support or relief? Is this, or what else is the reason why you are afraid of me, or alienated from me? Did either my for...
JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? He had not asked any sacrifice from them, had not even desired a gift from them; he had expected only the sympathy of true friends...
JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...
"HAVE. SAID, 'GIVE ME SOMETHING'": If Job had actually asked them for. bribe to influence. judge or deliverance to free him from some tyrant, he could understand their fear of wanting to get involved...
14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creatur...
DID I SAY? or, _Is it because I said_ ? Is this, or what else is the reason why you are afraid of me, or alienated from me? _Bring unto me_; give me something for my support or relief. Did either my f...
Job 6:22 say H559 (H8804) Bring H3051 (H8798) bribe H7809 (H8798) wealth H3581 Bring unto me -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...
Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...
_To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend._ A MESSAGE TO DOUBTERS Such is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unfortunately, it is a rendering which misses almost enti...
_But Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....
_JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...
EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)
So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...
1 Samuel 12:3; Acts 20:33; Job 42:11...